· Private foundation
Laird C and Jeanne B Cleaver Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $133k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lighthouse United Methodist Church | $60,000 |
| Food Pantry of Indian River County | $45,000 |
| Southport Island Association | $15,000 |
| MADACC Milwaukee Area Animal Contro | $15,000 |
| HALO No Kill Animal Shelter | $12,000 |
| Lighthouse Cemetary Associaton | $12,000 |
| Humane Society of Vero Beach | $12,000 |
| Boothbay Region District Nursing | $12,000 |
| Granny Rose Animal Shelter | $10,000 |
| Friendship House of Southport | $7,500 |
| Indian River Land Trust | $5,000 |
| Southport Memorial Library | $2,000 |
| St Joseph Indian School | $2,000 |
| The Opera House of Booth Bay | $1,000 |
| Detroit Dog Rescue | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WFWHOLE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC3× · 2021–2023 · $60k · revenue +99%
- BRBOOTHBAY REGION FOOD PANTRY2× · 2018–2021 · $7k · revenue +95%
- BRBoothbay Region Land Trust3× · 2019–2021 · $6k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- GYGifford Youth Act Ctr Schlrshp Fundone grant, 2023 · $20k
- YSYouth Sailg Fndtn of Indian Rvr Ctyone grant, 2023 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To build affordable homes for working men and women.
The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.
Animal shelter and rescue
Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…
Preserving our Maritime Heritage by supporting working waterfront, promoting sustainable practices, and embracing the educational opportunities this stewardship provides.
Protect and rescue abandoned and at-risk animals.
Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…
Friends of Franklin County Indiana Animal Shelter is dedicated to providing shelter, care, medical support, and adoption services for stray, surrendered, and homeless dogs and other animals in Franklin County, Indiana. The organization…
Through adoptions and collaboration with rescue groups, the organization mission is to save animals from euthanization.
The mission of Ocean Park Food Bank is to distribute food and other items of personal necessity to those who present themselves in need.
Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.
To keep pets with their families during financially difficult times.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WHOLE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD PANTRY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Southport Island Association ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BOOTHBAY REGION FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Boothbay Region Land Trust ↗
- Who funds HELPING ANIMALS LIVE & OVERCOME IN ↗
- Who funds DETROIT DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE OPERA HOUSE AT BOOTHBAY HARBOR ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Laird C and Jeanne B Cleaver Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laird C and Jeanne B Cleaver Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Indian River Land Trust Inc: 0% of income from government
- Whole Family Health Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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